by admin | Jan 11, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Urban Politics |
Adrienne Brown is hot like fire. – We need ongoing supported focus on police brutality and accountability, even as we develop our own peace zones. It’s no longer sufficient to get furious when a civilian is killed by police, and maintain that fury until...
by admin | Jan 10, 2009 | Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
(From Makani Themba-Nixon, director of The Praxis Project) 1. Digg the story so that the national media can pick up on it 2. Contact BART Director Carole Ward Allen and demand that 1) the officers involved be taken off duty without pay and charged and fully...
by admin | Jan 7, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, The Mass Media |
The New York Times features an article about the challenges the CBC faces in the upcoming term, what with a black President and all. The article has many of the challenges that journalistic accounts of black politics has–confusing age and ideology, ignoring the...
by admin | Jan 1, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership |
The line of the last four months has been something like the following: I’d never thought I’d live to see this happen. Of course those of us in the states, and even outside, know what “this” means. But what is going on is so much bigger. Hell I...
by admin | Dec 26, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Culture, Neoliberalism |
Important tidbits in a growing story: College endowments drop like a rock. In earlier news, NPR decides to drop News and Notes. Newspapers like the Detroit Free Press go virtual, while other newspapers won’t survive 2009. Book publishers have slashed their...
by admin | Dec 24, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Obama, Public Policy, The Future of the City |
Historians (rightly) rap Obama, arguing his stimulus package is weak. As students of American history, we are heartened by your commitment to a jobs stimulus program inspired by the New Deal and aimed at helping “Main Street.” We firmly believe that such a...
by admin | Dec 23, 2008 | Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
There were riots in Greece last week just four years after Athens hosted the Olympics (and several months after the media started to ask was it worth it? The proximate cause? An incident of police brutality after clashes between police and protesters left one 15-year...
by admin | Dec 22, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…what do you see when you read the following articles in tandem? Hedge Funds Overlook Madoff Risk. A Reeling City is a Snapshot of Economic Woes. Squeezed on all sides, parents forgo day care. New target for Mexico’s Drug Cartels: Schools. ...
by admin | Dec 18, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Check out the following press release from Good Jobs First: Foreign Auto Plants Have Received $3.6 Billion In Subsidies, Mostly from Southern States Responding to many queries, Good Jobs First released its summary of state and local subsidies given to...
by admin | Dec 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Detroit is the modern city. What we think of when we think of the modern urban condition (from relying on automobiles and freeways to drive, from using cities to house labor for factories, to stereotypes of crime and urban dysfunction) all happened in Detroit first....
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